Security has been stepped up in the capital and at refugee centres after several incidents targeting foreigners and anti-refugee rallies.”There is no migration crisis, but a crisis narrative that poses a real threat to security,” said Ildiko Otova, a migration expert and lecturer at Sofia University.Unlike most Western countries, the majority of Bulgarian politicians were choosing to get involved, she added.’Penal colony for criminals’ Bulgaria is part of the EU’s eastern border, with Turkey to the southeast.It has become a gateway into the bloc for rising numbers of people over the past two years, despite increased patrols along its 234-kilometre (145-mile) barbed-wire fenced border with Turkey.Most of the migrants — mainly from Afghanistan, Syria and Morocco — do not stay long in Bulgaria and move instead to Western Europe.After Germany deported about two dozen people to Bulgaria, the Socialists accused the government of rubber stamping a “penal colony for criminals, murderers, rapists and money launderers”.German authorities said the only known criminals among those deported were some Bulgarians released after having served their sentences in Bavaria.
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